Since polls seem to be the hip thing to do nowadays...I thought itd be cool to do a baseball player oriented one - to make an all-time great team.

 

Im going to make these nomination threads for each postion (with closers getting a thread as well) and then when we amass a good number of candidates, We will vote on them with the winner getting immortalized in MarlinBaseball.com lore forever.

 

Any player, who has ever played, may be nominated, since this is an all-time team.

 

Please try not to nominate more than 2 or 3 on your own, as this gets everyone involved.

 

Next Up: Closer

Mariano Rivera

Dennis Eckersley

Lee Smith

Rollie Fingers

Trevor Hoffman

Goose Gossage.

Randy Meyers

Eric Gagne

Dennis Eckersley

Lee Smith

John Smoltz

Rob Nen

Matt Herges :plain

benitez

Rivera

Smith

John Franco

Eric Gagne

Dennis Eckersley

John Franco

HAve to go with Rivera due to post season performace

Mariano Rivero

Lee Smith

Dennis Eckersley

Rob Nen

two current closers who have had great careers and haven't been mentioned:

Troy Percival

Billy Wagner

plus, as a Giants fan, I have to include Shooter

Any one know someone named Eric Gange :whistle

Gosage..

EcK...

Gagne...

lowell

Voting is open.

hmm... no one thought of Troy Percival?

voted for Mary-ann, despite his recent struggles

The one thing that hurts Mari-anus is his low career save total. Being the closer on a team like the Yankees for his entire career, you would think he'd easily surpass France and Smith.

The one thing that hurts Mari-anus is his low career save total. Being the closer on a team like the Yankees for his entire career, you would think he'd easily surpass France and Smith.

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but his career is still going

 

he'll get his due # of saves